Jtjws 30. 1831.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



439 



PLAN OF THE NATIONAL CAM' PONDS AT WASHINGTON, D. C. , , 



A, B, C, D, E and F, Hatching PondB; G, Turtle Pond ■ H, Watch House j I, East Pond ; K, Northwest Pond; L, Southwest Pood 



0, O, Outlets ; P, P, Fountains. 



your reader! -with » recapitulation of hia remarks upon the 

 show, but shall endeavor lo confine myself to what, in mv 

 iret place, the 

 new pair, dog 

 ion- respective 

 i undoubtedly 

 which are So 

 ) Regent and 



rat aud the other third, ant! l 

 . with the blunt, short head 

 . Unfortunately, both Prin 



e both undertone, which, in the 



■ it. of color 

 iuds of 



del 



-juglit for in 'dogs of this 

 production of an underhung j 



that the bin 

 riety 



the 



THE IMPROVED CARP (Cypr 



■pk>). 



k not quite as much of a variety, 

 him taking was the caddis worm, 

 t have seen at least ft peck of the 

 pile on the bank at the waters 

 che stream. He is als.i troublo- 



eh damage by undermining the 



.., ..nd bv eating off. the slats to your screens, 

 rilli these" by traping in the winter aud spring. 

 :ir fur is in prime order, aud will sell lor enough 

 .e and trouble. I sell every spring from ten to 

 rth of then- fur. 1 have never seen any evidence 

 ir eating fish. 



i mink, which is oue of the greatest enemies the 

 to contend «ith. If a trout is iu the stream or 

 ant it thoy will have it. 1 f they get the notion of 

 your ponils they will follow it up until the fish are 

 i't keep good watch thev will have half of them 

 are of it. As soou us yon think a mink is taking 

 lira. See how and where he goes into the pond. 

 ..__ that he euters at about the same place oa-ch time; 

 trap just under the water so that 



same food as tire owls, only T tl 

 The only thiug I have Observe 

 which he has a great liking for. 

 ftmptj caddis worm eases in on 

 elge. which he had taken froir 

 Hume, aud souiotiuies "" 

 banks of your p 

 I also make waj 

 At this season I 

 to pay for the t! 

 fifteen dollars' i 

 of their eatehhe 

 Then comes t 

 flshcmtiiri-t hai 

 pond, and they 

 coming to one c 

 gone. If you d 

 hefore you are i 

 your fish lay loi 

 You will gi 

 then set y< 



efor juslic 



e accomplished if every sportsmau and 

 oughouttho country * would see that 

 r nomination of local -or town ofilcers, 

 e that will stand firm and give the of- 



,„„ he thinks! into the pond he will slide into a trap niBtead. 

 In this way J look the mother and brood of tour almost full-gronn 

 minks in two nights. Oue mink may destroy a hundred dollars' 

 worth of fish in a short time. They often appear to catch them 

 for the sport of the thiug. I have seen them slide down the hank 

 of a stream into the water c.ommg up with a fish, aud repeating it 

 time aud again, hardly ever failing to get one. 



8naUe»-i will not say all the snakes found along a stream will 

 catch fish, bill I have seen what I called a water-adder, thirty 

 inches long, catch a trout of five ounces m weight, aud I have seen 

 one of the same variety killed and opened that had three trout 

 in bis stomaoh. A gentleman told me this spring that last sum- 

 mer he was passing near a pond which contained brook trout, and 

 he saw a Biiake slide down the bank into the water, aud 

 as the water was clear ho watched him. He went 

 into some mous that was on the bottom of the pond. Entering the 

 moss from below, soon he saw hie head appear in the top of the 

 bunch of moss, and then, for the first time, he uotieed a small 

 trout, about four inches long, that was almost over the snake's 

 head. After slowly drawing his head out a little ho madu a dart 

 for tho fish and caught him ; then came out on the bank. The 

 only method I have found for their destruction is to kill them 

 whenever they come in your path. Iu the months of May and 

 June they may be found along the banks of Streams or ponds sun- 

 ning themselves, when a charge of No. 6 or 8 shot will put them 

 on the retired list. 



Last, hut not least, I have the one coming more directly under 

 the title of mv paper, man. He knows better, but I am sorry to 

 eay that he steps over the mark very often, and in many cases 

 proves the most .troublesome of all, often de.-erviug a charge of 

 fine shot. If vou commence au action against him, many (I am 

 very sorrv to say it) of our justices only wink at the offender and 

 he goes free. We know of the justice himself going on a private, 

 and posted stream, knowing it to be so, and afterwards telling of 

 the good luck he had. A certain class of our people regard it art a 

 smart thing to take trout from your pouds or stream without 

 bring eam'ht. But if any one should steal a chicken from them 

 they say. " Oh, that's a difT-rent thing." I have caught bovs and 

 men on mv stream aud a sign prohibiting fiBbing w il bin 10 ft. of it. 

 I have spoken to the. boys' fathers and hud eaoB one make good 

 promises that thev would see to it that their boy never was there 

 ao-aiu, but when your hack was turned laugh at you and make 

 brags to their nek-hbors of what a good mess of trout his boy 

 caught. I think it will be a long time before all of our people get 

 educated up to the poiut that they see the stealing of a few trout 

 a sin. 



fender the full extent of the law. 



A CORRECTION— Hartford, June 27.— By omitting a cipher 

 iu the number of Penobscot salmon eggs in my letter, you make 

 our hatching seem to be anvthiug but a success. The figures 

 shoidd be 250,000 instead of 25,000, M the types make it.— W. M. 



Hudsom. 



RAINBOW TROUT FOR STATES ISLAND.— As we go to press 

 twenty thousand rainbow trout, 8almo indea, have been sent to 

 the Richmond Co., N.Y., Association for the Protection of Fish and 

 Game. This association is evidently alive, aud now that its presi- 

 dent carried off two prizes in the late fly and bass-casting tourna- 

 ment we may look for it to hold its head high. 



GROWTH OF CARP. -Mr. Frank Endicott. President of the 

 Richmond Co., N. Y., Association for the Protection of Fish and 

 Game, reports that on the 17th of December. 1-Su. be received 

 from Prof. Baiid, through Mr. Blackford, twelve carp, which were 

 three inches long. They vere placed in Connor Pond, Clifton, 

 Staten Island, and one caught June 21, 1881. was nine inches iu 

 length and of an estimated weight of 1 lb. It was broad and thick 

 and a well-proportioned lisb. Taken so early in the season, with 

 two more months in which to grow, this is a good weight for as 

 far north as Now York harbor. 



Xmntl. 



FIXTURES. 



entries Pennsylvania 



Papt.r-ri.ber 13 and 1 

 - ansa ee-, or the P 

 .so September <c 



!ch Show 



lird 



Annual 

 Octooer I, at, now voi-k i.iy. umse oi entries in 



Trials -omti.cniv ,,i. 'J taiitaaer, nig inn . .laeoh v 



0. Box SW4, New York City. 

 -■v-.v-mb:-.- iO, Lonisiar.a Si ate Kvlcl Trials. Entn 



1. Edward Odell, Secivturv, New Orleans, La. 

 November — . ai Grand .luiietion. 'I', in:.. National American kennel 



flag's i iflil Trials. Jos. II. Dew. see-iefarv, L'olumbla, I'enn. 



ni7. Secretary, J', 

 s close Novenib 



£i!H: 



OUR LETTER FROM ENGLAND. 

 » Fores/ and Stream ■ 



Basra at h 



s being put back, 



for lie has 



t tend to in 



are him in the eye 



of judges, 



Inch howr 



n in this country 



vas seldom 



riucipal su 



cccssos being achiev 



ed at little 



irk-rrv 



ipliance with vonr desire that I should from time to time 

 send you a letter noon English canine matters. I beg to submit to 

 you the following which I trust: will mee-1 your wishes. 



At present we are in that state of calm which always succeeds 

 the excitement attendant upon a great show such as the Kennel 

 Clubs' Crystal Palace summer exhibition, winch was concluded 

 thin week, and which ene.t deemorpv a at tu if ihc best they 

 ever held. Ah, however, i understand from Mr. H. Dalziel that he 

 too has been requested by you to send a periodical letter to FonEST 

 aku Steeam, and like myself has undertaken the task, I Shall not 



but this 

 bo obvious to all. Apropos ot mastiffs I i 

 that the defeat of Salisbury at New York 

 discussion at the Crystal Palace she 

 raise expressed by 

 many faults which 

 and ' the company 

 even second rate, h 

 shows in Lancashire 

 most do abonud. I believe it was mv lot to be the last judge to 

 have Salisbury before him ere the dog left, this country, and 1 only 

 api'.e him v, h. c. at Edinburgh (Gardinal and Vulcan beat him, 

 and be was equal with Chief Justice). What the dogs were like 

 who were in front of him at Now York of course I canuot tell, but 

 T thiuk the dip under Salisbury's eyes, aud his long head, like an 

 exaggerated pointer's, in addition to his tucked-up greyhoundy 

 body", leave a good bit to be desired. Ho is a great, big, lino dogl 

 cheerfully admit, but as a mastiff I fancy that he has a good 

 deal wanting. If American sportsmen would offer prizes 

 at Bome forthcoming show which would tempt over some 

 of our non-sporting cracks I firmly believe the visitors 

 to that exhibit ion would have a lesson in dog- flesh which 

 would sa,ve them many a dollar, and also that these 

 breeds would rapidly improve throughout the States. But to re- 

 turn to the Palace. A young St. Bernard called Bonivard, belong- 

 ing to Mr. S. W. Smith, of Leeds, came out aud won well in his 

 class. He is a clipper and will do a lot of winning before his show 

 career is closed. Setters ware not conspicuous for great merit, 

 aud Mr. Llewellyn had it pretty much his own way ; but the open 

 dog class was badly judged, and Mr. S. E. Shirley's Rob Roy, 

 although a, small one,' should have taken first. Don of Devon, 

 who won iu the open pointer class, was exhibited for the first 

 time, and a really good dog he is: if unsold, many a prize will he 

 take back to that uurserv of good pointers — Devonshire. Mr. E. 

 C Morrish, the well-known Devonshire exhibitor, made his debut 

 as the pointer judge, and deserves considerable credit for the satis- 

 factory manner iu which he got through his work; but he went 

 about his task with all the, deliberation of an old hand, and ulti- 

 mately succeeded in pleasing almost everybody. 



Fox terriers swarmed, over two hundred being exhibited, 

 and Mr. Theodore Bassc-tt, who judged the class, certainly suc- 

 ceeded in selecting tho best of the lot for premier honors Olive 

 won the smooth-hatred challenge cup and tho sliver medal for the 

 best fox tel-riel of any sort iu the show, and Mr. Harding Cox's 

 grand wire-haired Oakleigh-Topper scored an easy win in the 

 competition for the rough- coated challenge cup, though, as I have 



dd before, he was beaten by Olive for the medal. ThiB was de- 



cidedly the beat class of fox terriers we have 

 iproveinent which is taking place in the fal- 



len, and the 

 arkable, for 

 nly one was 

 the victim 

 s the cata- 



there are scores of good dogs to be seen now where < 

 to be found six years ago. I was myself selected ai 

 who was to judge the Irish wolfhounds, or rather, i 

 logos, delicately ox [tressed it, I had to award the prizes tvuieu wwtj 

 oSnred in the class to the dogs which "most nearly approached 

 the old type." As I had not the felicity of existing one hundred 

 and fifty years ago, at which period the breed is supposed to have 

 been in a more or less flourishing condition, I found myself 

 thrown back upon the writings of both ancient and modern au- 

 thorities. There were only four brought into the ring, and one of 

 these was palpably a half-bred German mastiff, which I may in- 

 form those whom it may concern is the new German name for 

 boarhoinid, great Dane or Ulmer hound. This beast was soon 

 sent out, but another difficulty lay iu my path in the person of a red 

 dog called Scot, whom I have illustrated in my hook, and whom I 

 put first iu Dublin sho-v when judging there twelve mouths ago. 

 Then he was all right, bnt last week his hind muscles quivered 

 and twitched lo such an extent that, I felt morally certain he could 

 never catch a wolf if called upon to do so, and he therefore joined 

 the other banished one on the benches. At last a dog, which 

 really seems to lie only an exaggerated deerhound, won, and all I 

 have to say is, that it seems ten thousand pities that the admirers 

 of this much writ'en-up breed have not beeu able to produce abet- 

 ter lot after all the assistance which has been allotted to tin m by 

 the press. It is, therefore, to be hoped that American exhibitors', 

 if they waut a wolfhound, will try aud manufacture it for them- 

 selves, as these dogs are as rare as golden cows in Eneland just at 

 present Bull-terriers were very fair, and Irish terriers grand. 

 Mr. George Krebl, of Hanover street, showed his champion pair, 

 Mova Doolan a nd Suort'T, not for competition, but he had it all hia 

 own way in the classes for those most beautiful dogs, Bassett 

 hounds. In this, the coming breed, his kennel is facile prilWeps, 

 and as he oulv showed the cream of his stud his success is scarcely 

 to be wondered at. The Blenheim spaniels, King Charles spaniels 

 and pugs were extremely good classes, and were well handled by 

 licv. 8. F. Hudson; the same remark applies to the sheepdogs 

 which were judged by Mr. W. W. Thom-on. 



The above is a short resume of the show, and is based upou my 

 roport in the Field, the editor of which has kindly sanctioned my 

 w riling for you. What our mutual frieud Dalziel's views may be I 

 eatm at say— if a o agree why all the better, bnt if we don't, then 

 " ijpicI h'lhiinejt inl sen/entice " must be our motto. This, judging 

 from the temeajbrance of the solitary occasion when we officiated 

 together as judges at Dundee last November is, I think, the more 

 likelv contingency of the two. 



There were not many items of news to be picked up at the Palace, 

 the principal events of importance being the deaths of the well 

 known champion pointer bitch Fan, who belonged to Mr. James 

 Pletohar, and the loss of old champion Rattler, tho iox-temer, 

 who was also the property of that gentleman. Heart disease killed 

 the former, and old age tripped up poor old Rattler. Darlington 

 show in July is our next big event ; but in a subsequent letter, I 

 hope to have something to say, with your kind permission, about 

 the question of the unfair tampering with show dogs which is just 

 now exciting considerable attention over here. 



Yours very faithfully, 



Lobddk, England, June 10. Vebo Shaw. 



LOUISIANA STATE FIEI D TRIALS.— The first annual field 



trials given by the New Orleans Gun Club, of New Orleans. La., 

 will commence on the 25th day of November, 1881. They will be 

 run at a point to be hereafter designated, on the line of the 

 i imago, St. Louis and New Orleans R. R. (Jackson R. R ), near 

 New Orleans. The conditions announced state that the trials wUl 

 be open to all pointers and setters owned by residents of Louisiana 

 that have not taken a prize iu any field trials. The following is 

 Ihe list of managers : Executive Committee— Edward Odell, Chair- 

 man : J, K. Keuaud and H. Fontaine. Officers of the New Or- 

 leans thin Club : F. A, Cousin, President ; L. P. Chaudet, Vice- - 

 President; Col. J. E. McDauiels, Secretary; J. K. P.enaud, Treats- 



The following stakes will be run under the rules of the Eastern 



Field Trials Club : First Stake— Louisiana Field Derby, an all ago 

 stake ; open to all setters and pointers who have not won a prize 

 or prizes in any previous trial i 1st prize, solid silver cup ; 2d prize, 

 grid medal ; 3d prize, silver medal. Entrance fee. SB. 



Sacond Stake New Orleans Ouu Club Stake; open to setters 

 aud pointers whelped since November 1, 1878, who have not won 

 a prize or prizes in any previous trial i 1st onze, Gold medal ; 2d 

 prize, silver hunting watch ; 3d prize, fine collar and chain. En- 

 trance fee, S3. 



Third Stake— Areola Kennel Club Stake ; for puppies whelped 



